Word: footedly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Some of the last marchers on the line waved ghostly, 15-foot-tall puppets above their heads and an Uncle Sam on stilts danced among them with a drum corps...
Following them closely were the police, who formed their own parade, an assembly on foot, on horseback, in armored buses with grate windows, on motorcycles, on dirt bikes and in Police Athletic League vans. The police contingent covered four lanes of Broad Street and stretched back for six blocks...
Despite rumors of more aggressive protests, Tuesday morning was hot and uneventful. At the First Union Center, behind three walls of eight-foot chain-link fence, were police in cars every 30 feet. Franklin D. Roosevelt park, where the March For Economic Human Rights had ended the day before, was enclosed by another perimeter of fencing, and more police. Only one entrance, at 20th Street, remained open. At the southwest corner, more than 300 yards from the convention center across a highway, a parking lot, four more fences and hundred of police, was a fenced-in enclosure dubbed "the protest...
Eight were chained together by devices called "sleeping dragons," two-foot long lengths of PVC pipe covered with a thick layer of duct tape. Inside each tube was a bolt and chain which locked protesters' wrist together inside the pipe...
Many arrestees smiled like martyrs, or joked with police, who responded cordially. One man hopped on one foot between the police escorting him to the bus, kicking the other leg out in a black boot can-can. The plain-clothes officer by his side smiled...